H-Prize Competition News

Team SimpleFuel: H-Prize Competition News

Team SimpleFuel has won the H-Prize Competition! Read the announcement here. More updates and details on testing results will be coming soon.

This chart shows the total hydrogen generated and dispensed by the SimpleFuel prototype unit since the beginning of the test period.1 Each kilogram of hydrogen represents 60-70 miles of driving range for a fuel cell vehicle.

1. Note that all data shown here is provided by Team SimpleFuel, and is not official H2 Refuel H-Prize data. The competition results will be decided by a panel of expert judges after the test period.↩

The SimpleFuel team is proud to announce that we have completed all required testing for the H2 Refuel H-Prize competition! It has been a very exciting and productive three months, and we are looking forward to the final competition results.

Here are a few statistics on the test period: Over the three months of testing, the prototype SimpleFuel H2 Refueling Appliance performed over 160 fills, for a total of more than 180 kilograms of hydrogen delivered, both to test tanks and to a Hyundai Tucson fuel cell electric vehicle. Fill pressures ranged from 70 to 700 bar (>10,000 psi), with 35% of those fills at above 650 bar and 18% at 700 bar or above. Fill times were as low as 5 minutes per kg. The amount of fuel dispensed during the test period would allow a hydrogen FCEV to travel over 10,000 miles!

The SimpleFuel refueler was tested over a wide range of fill pressures. 700 bar (10,000 psi) is the full pressure for automotive hydrogen tanks, providing more than 300 miles of range on current H2 FCEVs.